JAPANESE ATHLETES.
Advices have been received in Noav York that* Japan will be represented for the first time in the Olympic Games that take place in Stockholm this year. According to all accounts Western athletes Avill have to look to their laurels. It ' is reported that at least three Japanese pedestrians have broken tho Olympic record foi* the Marathon race,one of them, Shize Kankauri, of the Tokio Higher Normal School, having loAvered the time by 2min 2sec.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12666, 20 January 1912, Page 6
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77JAPANESE ATHLETES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12666, 20 January 1912, Page 6
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